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Written by LAURA LUNDQUIST, Twin Falls Times-News
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 |
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One of Idaho’s snails will be removed from the endangered species list next month. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday it would remove the Utah valvata snail’s endangered status after proposing delisting a year ago. The official date of delisting will be Sept. 24.
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Written by BEN NEARY, Casper Star-Tribune
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 |
Outdoors lovers can continue to hunt and fish on a blue-ribbon stretch of the North Platte River west of Casper, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
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Written by ADELLA HARDING, Elko Daily Free Press
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 |
U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., said Tuesday his office is talking with El Paso Corp. in hopes of convincing the company to make public its pact with two environmental organizations over Ruby Pipeline.
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Written by KIM BRIGGEMAN, Missoulian
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 |
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He's not counting his chickens yet. "This is probably the first skirmish. These folks aren't going to go away," Linwood Laughy said Wednesday.
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Written by DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER, Casper Star-Tribune
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 |
Gov. Dave Freudenthal on Wednesday issued an executive order revising Wyoming's sage grouse "core population area" policy, first implemented by executive order in 2008 to help avoid a listing of the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act.
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Written by Meg Ambrose
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
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| Private forests are experiencing increases in housing density in every region of the United States, but the loss of forests to development is particularly acute in the Southeast and New England, according to new findings from the Forest Service. Photo courtesy of USFS/Jeff Kline. |
Large swaths of private forest, which account for most of the forested acreage in the United States, could be replaced by housing in the coming decades, potentially compromising water quality, carbon sequestration and other "ecosystem services" that those forests provide, according to a new report from the Forest Service.
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Written by LAURA SNIDER, Daily Camera
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
 Got a blue car? The city of Boulder wants you to consider commuting sans car on Mondays.
Red car? Take a break from driving on Wednesdays. White? Thursday is your designated day of the week to leave your vehicle at home.
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Written by WyoFile.com
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
Beginning next summer the state of Montana plans to haul thousands of tons of contaminated mine tailings from an abandoned Cooke City, Montana, gold mine over Wyoming’s Chief Joseph Scenic Highway, a fragile, 47-mile, two-lane mountain route to Yellowstone and one of the state’s most popular tourist byways.
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Written by Missolian
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
A judge on Tuesday revoked special permits allowing a company to truck four oversized loads of oil refinery equipment through a federally protected river corridor, saying the state failed to address public concerns.
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Written by Pueblo Chieftain
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
Gov. Bill Ritter announced his appointments Monday to the 17-member River Access Dispute Resolution Task Force.
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Written by Billings Gazette
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service filed an appeal earlier this month to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the relisting of the estimated 600 grizzly bears in the Yellowstone ecosystem.
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Written by Spokane Spokesman Review
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
A state judge will decide today if ConocoPhillips can ship four oversized loads of oil refinery equipment along a highway that traces a winding, federally protected river corridor in Idaho.
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Written by DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER, Casper Star-Tribune
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
An El Paso Corp. spokesman expressed regret that the company struck a deal setting aside some $22 million in conservation trusts to alleviate environmental opposition to a Wyoming-to-Oregon natural gas pipeline.
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Written by SHAUN McKINNON, Arizona Republic
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
Haze blurs the skies over the Grand Canyon, tour planes break the backcountry silence, uranium mines are making a comeback near the Canyon's rim and the Colorado River has lost its muddy mojo.
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Written by BRETT FRENCH, Billings Gazette
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Monday, 23 August 2010 |
Research done by a coalition of local groups has identified 10 tracts of land along and in the Yellowstone River between Laurel and Billings that may be public.
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Written by PETE SPITTS, Christian Science Monitor
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Monday, 23 August 2010 |
Earth's plants – natural scrubbers removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – reduced their carbon uptake by some 606 million tons during the past 10 years, according to a new study.
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Written by KARL PUCKETT, Great Falls Tribune
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Monday, 23 August 2010 |
Mistrust of the purported plans by the Interior Department to create a grasslands national monument — possibly with bison — on Montana's open plains was expressed by speaker after speaker at a meeting here Friday.
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Written by EVE BYRON, Helena Independent Record
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Monday, 23 August 2010 |
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Representatives of livestock producers, outfitters, hunters and wildlife enthusiasts promised Friday to present a united front with the state of Montana as it moves forward as quickly as possible, on multiple pathways, to try to regain tools needed to control growing gray wolf populations.
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Written by JUDY FAHYS, Salt Lake Tribune
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010 |
Federal regulators may well have the authority after all to decide how a Utah magnesium plant manages its hazardous waste, under a Denver appeals court’s ruling released Tuesday.
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Written by ERIC MORTENSON, Oregonian
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010 |
 Ruling on a case involving the Tillamook State Forest, a federal appeals court said Tuesday that dirt, rock and sand washing off of logging roads is a form of pollution that requires a permit under the Clean Water Act. Read more...
Read the entire 9th Circuit opinion here.
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